New Zealand-based bottled water brand Nakd has launched in Australia. Sourced in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty, Nakd said its water is bottled directly from an 1,800 aquifer and that is was "one of the softest waters in the world". The ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, bottled water
AkzoNobel has introduced the shipping industry's first digital tool that enables operators to accurately assess and predict the risk of hull fouling, depending on which routes are being traded. Developed by the company's Marine Coatings ...
Tags: Shipping Industry, Shipping
As part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) routine testing of various food products, a survey released today found that all juice and bottled water tested for antimony were safe to consume. The CFIA tested 359 samples of ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Bottled Water
In the last five years, the proportion of Australians drinking soft drinks such as colas and lemonades in an average seven days has declined from 56 per cent to 49 per cent, but could it be that more consumers are simply starting to enjoy a ...
Tags: Soft Drinks, Agriculture, Food, beverage
Fednav pioneers the use of drones in polar shipping Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 MONTREAL, March 25, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Fednav recently became the first shipping company to employ drones, or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), for ice reconnaissance ...
Tags: Fednav, Polar Shipping
Europe is emerging as a world center for the development of coatings and other materials for offshore wind turbines, which potentially could be a much more cost-competitive and efficient source of renewable energy than their onshore ...
Tags: Coatings, Wind Turbines
At an exclusive event hosted by CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg and Nadja Swarovski, the nominees and honorees for the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards were announced. In collaboration with Swarovski, the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards will take ...
Salt of the Earth, an Israeli salt producer, has launched a new low-sodium sea salt ingredient, designed specifically for food manufacturers. The new ingredient is claimed to help reduce sodium in bakery products, such as bread, breakfast ...
Tags: Salt, Agriculture, Food, bakery products
A healthy supply has kept retail horse-hay prices in Texas steady in recent months, says Mitch Waters, of Master Made Feeds, Inc., Grapevine. For 50- to 65-lb small squares of coastal bermudagrass, he’s currently paying around ...
Tags: enough hay, keep prices steady, hay sales
China's CNOOC International Ltd has started preparation work for oil and gas exploration in Iceland's offshore Dreki Area, an official with CNOOC's Investor Relations Department said Friday. This makes CNOOC the first Chinese upstream ...
The changing political situations in the Middle East are focusing attention on possibly significant increases in energy production, but countries that could produce that energy still face significant hurdles, according to a panel of Middle ...
Tags: energy production, Mineral
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas developer, has become the first Chinese firm licensed to look for oil in the Arctic, a landmark step for overseas energy exploration for the world's ...
Tags: Arctic Oil, Mineral
Changes in the sun's energy output may have led to marked natural climate change in Europe over the last 1000 years, according to researchers at Cardiff University. Scientists studied seafloor sediments to determine how the temperature of ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The evolution of the first animals may have oxygenated the earth's oceans – contrary to the traditional view that a rise in oxygen triggered their development. New research led by the University of Exeter contests the long held ...
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An international team of marine biologists has found mesopelagic fish in the earth's oceans constitute 10 to 30 times more biomass than previously thought. UWA Professor Carlos Duarte says mesopelagic fish – fish that live between ...